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    Lee Van Cleef

    A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

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    Lee Van Cleef

    Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

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    Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

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    Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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    I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

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    I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

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    If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

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    I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

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    I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good.

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    I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

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    You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.